ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on studies of Indian music in the disciplines, but it focuses on how alien elements are perceived and comprehended. It concentrates on the outer points of the attunemental process, leaving aside much of the nineteenth-century music. A fully fledged study of the interrelationship between Western and Indian music would deserve a study of its own, even in the form of attunemental auscultation. The chapter suggests that the sudden Indian resonance has something to do with student rebellions, 1968. The example of India has shown the conditions for synchronic attunement between musical cultures. At a given point in history, the Western ear was closed to Hindustani music with complete distunement as a consequence. The rhythmical dimension of Hindustani music can be said to be the most important aspect for Western composers. Hindustani music influenced American minimalism from the 1960s onwards.
